The Platform Group, a Houston-based real estate and investment group, will open its first project, a mixed-use retail and office development, this May. 

Steve and Hilary Ybarra, a husband-wife team and principals behind Platform, will develop, lease and manage the 11,500-square-foot space at 2132 Bissonnet, per a press release. 

The development will include an all-day café and restaurant, Tropicales, a concept created by David Bueher of Greenway Coffee. The first Houston branch of Austin-based Westlake…